Brazos, you can only open a command prompt as Administrator if you give consent through a UAC dialog box. If you’re an Administrator, that means clicking OK, but if you’re a standard user you have to provide a username and password from an Admin account.

The security challenge has to be passed before you can open the command prompt. And you then have to explicitly enter a command to do anything.

So I don’t see where the security risk is.

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